Re: [PATCH] soc: xilinx: Fix a memory leak in zynqmp_pm_remove()

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon May 29 2023 - 06:00:38 EST


On Mon, May 29, 2023 at 09:53:24AM +0200, Christophe JAILLET wrote:
> 'rx_chan' is known to be NULL here.
> Reverse the logic to free the mbox if it has been allocated.
>
> Fixes: ffdbae28d9d1 ("drivers: soc: xilinx: Use mailbox IPI callback")
> Signed-off-by: Christophe JAILLET <christophe.jaillet@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 'rx_chan' may be NULL, but mbox_free_channel() handles it.
> Maybe it is more informative to keep a (useless) "if (rx_chan)" to tell
> that it may not be allocated.
>
>
> On my machine, compilation fails with gcc (Ubuntu 12.1.0-2ubuntu1~22.04):
>
> CC drivers/soc/xilinx/zynqmp_power.o
> drivers/soc/xilinx/zynqmp_power.c: In function ‘zynqmp_pm_probe’:
> drivers/soc/xilinx/zynqmp_power.c:193:12: error: ‘pm_api_version’ is used uninitialized [-Werror=uninitialized]
> 193 | if (pm_api_version < ZYNQMP_PM_VERSION)
> | ^
> drivers/soc/xilinx/zynqmp_power.c:187:13: note: ‘pm_api_version’ was declared here
> 187 | u32 pm_api_version;
> | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors
>
> I think that this warning is bogus and gcc is wrong.
>
> But I don't know what to do with it :/
> Anyway, it is un-realated to this patch.

I bet GCC is correct.

Do you have CONFIG_ZYNQMP_FIRMWARE enabled in your .config? This driver
can only be compiled with that enabled, but I've seen some of your
other patches depend on CONFIG_BROKEN so I think you're going outside of
the Kconfig rules.

regards,
dan carpenter